A moving metaphor in the real, Bill, & layered as Sheila says…
Doug
> On Nov 13, 2019, at 3:37 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Could be right, Patrick.
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> Might go with:
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> Ten year shirt 2
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> How could I have known
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> that this shirt,
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> dark and unremarkable,
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> would outlive the Timorese boy
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> who said Cool shirt, Sir,
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> ten years ago
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> when I wore it for the first time
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> into the High Achievers
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> Year 8 class at Resa High?
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> It took Facebook
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> to tell me that JJ
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> had drowned,
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> years after leaving school,
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> having established himself
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> as a lively hiphop performer.
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> His older sister Tina,
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> electing to ‘do an oral’
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> on the contentious issue
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> of refugee boat arrivals,
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> had deftly leaned the lectern
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> all the way to the floor,
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> before straddling the stand
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> and mock rowing throughout
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> her presentation.
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> Shirt now faded and frayed,
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> one slight tear in the pocket
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> but still fit for gardening.
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> Is it, I recall JJ asking,
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> when it came time for him
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> to do his oral,
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> OK to sing it?
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> My word it was.
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> Bill
Douglas Barbour
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